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Master List of Architects that worked in York Harbor, ME between 1885 and 1930 This is the master list of individual architects, architectural firms and landscape architects that practiced in York, York Harbor, York Cliffs and Cape Neddick, Maine between 1885 and 1930. Many of the architects were brought to York Harbor by their affluent clients for specific commissions. Two local architects, EB Blaisdell and FC Watson dominated the design of the York Harbor Colony with 45-50 designs (cottages, hotels, clubs, schools, bridges and churches) to their credit. The peak building boom in York Harbor was 1899-1901. Three prestigious architectural firms are missing from the York Harbor list that practiced in Bar Harbor and Newport, RI at the time: McKim, Mead & White, Peabody & Stearns, and Rotch & Tilden. However, a number of architects on this list started and were trained at one of these three firms. Many of the architects received academic training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a few additional academic training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Architect YH Cottages & Buildings Other Information and Noted Works Andrews, Jaques ‘Villa Tranquille’ for John American architectural firm founded in Boston, in 1885 by Robert Day Andrews, and Rantoul Ropes of Ropes & Gray Herbert Jaques and Augustus Day Rantoul. The firm designed numerous buildings that are listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. The Hartford Club, 1901, Hartford, CT, The Equitable Building,1892, Denver, CO, Gov. Frank West Rollins House, Concord, NH, 1890 and The Hooper Mansion, 1889, Boston, MA Edward B. Designed and built many of the His commissions for cottages included: Stonecroft, 1895, The Brambles, 1899, Blaisdell large shingle style cottages in Tyn-Y-Coed, 1899, Millbury Cottage, 1899, Hubbard Brown Cottage, (1845-1924) York, with a wide range of work Youngholm, 1900, Twin Cottage and Mayfair Cottage, 1901, and Stetson including hotels, clubs, private House, 1901. Hotels and clubs included the Albracca Hotel, 1891, the cottages, churches, bridges, Passaconaway Inn, 1892, and the York Country Clubhouse, 1901. FC Watson and banks. (see below) worked with EB Blaisdell between 1899-1901. Roger H. Bullard ‘Bullard Cottage’, 1923, former Columbia University School of Architecture in 1907 and practiced in Long (1884-1935) stables of Rock Ledge Cottage Island. Architect for the Auxiliar Obras Publicas of the Cuban government, 1908-1909. His works include: The Maidstone Club of East Hampton, 1927, Plainfield, New Jersey Country Club, Oakland Golf Club, 1926, Bayside, Milwaukee Country Club. Chapman & Frazer ‘Harbor Lights’, cottage for NH Chapman and Frazer was formed in 1891, a partnership of John Henry Gov. Frank W. Rollins, 1906 Chapman and Horace Southworth Frazer. 'Rock Ledge' George Herbert Walker, (Bush’s grandfather),1904, Clement S. Houghton House, Chestnut Hill, 1904, 240 Commonwealth, 1904, The Castle for William Lindsey (on Boston University campus), 1904, Andrew Weeks Cottage, Marion, MA, 1895, W R Cordingly House, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1895 Cram and ‘The Ledges’, 1889, the Sarah Philips Church, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1897, Emmanuel Church, Newport, Wentworth Whirtemore Cottage Rhode Island, 1900, Saint Thomas Church, New York City, 1905–1913, First (Ralph Adams Unitarian Society in Newton, MA, 1906, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, Cram, 1863–1942) Michigan, 1908, Park Avenue Christian Church, NYC, 1911, Multiple buildings at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, including the 1917 Cleveland Tower, the 1928 Princeton University Chapel, Campbell Hall, McCormick Hall, and multiple buildings of the Graduate College, 1913–1927, St. James' Episcopal Church, NYC, rebuilt, 1924, J.W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, MA, 1933 William Dabney, ‘Redcote’ on the York River. Was at the forefront of the Boston Colonial Revival. Sorrento Library, Sorrento, Jr. (1855-1897) Peter’s Cottage, Starboard ME, 1893, 21-room Colonial Revival-style mansion Jamaica Plain, C. Sydney Lane, 1882, the Union Chapel Waldo ,1896, Seacroft, for Nancy King (Dabney) Bishop, Narragansett, RI, & Library,1887, Overbank 1886, David Nevins Cottage, Nantucket, MA, 1894 Cottage,1892, Stackpole Block,1895, The Moorings, 1889 Antoine Dorticos ‘Cragmere’, cottage of George During the 1880s and 1890s, Antoine Dorticos designed a series of fine Queen (1848-1906) M. Conarroe of Anne and Shingle Style cottages and pioneered the Casco Bay islands as a © The York Harbor Cottage Project, 2016 – V1.0 Philadelphia at York Cliffs, fashionable summer retreat for local families. He is known for other homes 1895 along the Maine coast, including cottages on Peaks Island, Great Diamond Island, and Chebeague Island. In total he did 21 projects in Maine and later, others in Arizona William Ralph Rock Ledge and Aldis Considered the ‘father of the shingle style’. Mossley Hall, William B. Howard Emerson Cottages, 1892, Juniper Hill, Cottage, Bar Harbor, 1883, Highbrook, Mary Leeds Cottage, Bar Harbor, 1881, (1833 – 1917) Four cottages for Willson L. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Rockland, ME, 1884, Fair Haven, Samual H. Walker, Cove Cottage, Walker Jones Cottage, Kennebunkport, ME, 1888, Blue Hill Inn, Blue Hill, ME , 1892, Cottage, Stage Neck Cottage Felsted, cottage for Frederick Law Olmsted, Deer Isle, ME, 1896, Redwood, C. and Short Sands Cottage. 1897 J. Morrill House, Bar Harbor, ME, 1879, 1881 Boston Art Club, Boston, MA, 1881, Saint Jude's Episcopal Church, Seal Harbor, ME, 1887, The Reading Room, Bar Harbor, ME, 1890, The Hotel Claremont, Claremont, NH, 1892 Frank Furness “The Pines”, 1885. Used by Known for his eclectic, muscular, and often idiosyncratically scaled buildings. (1839-1912) Mark Twain. "Stanwood," Bar Harbor, ME, 1885, University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, 1891, Rhawn-Green "Knowlton Mansion", Philadelphia, PA, 1883, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1871-76), Undine Barge Club, #13 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, 1882-83, Broad Street Station, was the world's largest passenger railroad terminal, Philadelphia, PA 1893, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station (24th Street Station), 1886-88, Church of Our Father, Hull's Cove, Mount Desert Island, ME, 1891. Henry J Trinity Episcopal Church in The Plaza Hotel – Manhattan, NY, 1905–07, Waldorf Hotel – Manhattan, NY, Hardenbergh York Harbor,1908 1893, demolished 1929, Astoria Hotel – Manhattan, NY, 1897, demolished (1847 - 1918) 1929, and the Copley Plaza Hotel – Boston, MA, 1912 Holabird & Roche ‘Aldis Cottage’, 1911, Beginning with the Tacoma Building, their first major commission, the firm alterations became well known for its groundbreaking Chicago School skyscrapers. An enormously successful practice, they also designed large, ornate hotels across the country. Graceland Cemetery Chapel, 1888, University Club of Chicago, 1908, Soldier Field, 1924, Palmer House Hotel, 1925, Chicago Daily News Building, Chicago, 1929, Palmolive Building, Chicago, 1929 Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 1930, Guy Lowell Isabella Breckinridge House Lowell was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, (1870-1927) also known as ‘River House’, and a member of Boston's well-known Lowell family. Lowell Lecture Hall, 1905 and rebuilt after fire in Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1902, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1927. Built for Mary Goodrich, Boston, 1909, NY State Supreme Courthouse, NYC, 1913, Grosse Pointe Yacht widow of tire magnate B. F. Club, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI, 1929, Harvard University President's House, Goodrich. Cambridge, MA, 1912 Timothy G. Star of the Sea Catholic O'Connell is reputed to have produced some 600 civic and religious buildings. O'Connell Church, York Beach, 1901 Some of these structures such as the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in (1868-1955) Lewiston, Maine would rival any medieval cathedral in form and scale. Works include: St. Mary's By The Sea Catholic Church, Biddeford Pool, ME, 1915, St. Mary of the Harbor Church, Boothbay Harbor, ME, 1917 Olmsted Brothers, ‘Millbury Meadows’, cottage for The Olmsted Brothers company was an influential landscape design firm in the Landscape Harold C. Richard, Esq., 1929 United States, formed in 1898 by stepbrothers John Charles Olmsted (1852– Architects 1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1870–1957), who were the sons of the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Works include: Eastern Promenade, Portland, ME, Seattle Park System, Prouty Garden, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, Philadelphia, PA John Russell ‘Millbury Meadows’ cottage, for National Archives and Records Administration building, 1935, Jefferson Pope Harold C. Richard, Esq., 1929 Memorial, 1943, West Building of the National Gallery of Art, 1941, Washington, (1874 – 1937) DC. Throughout his career, Pope designed private houses such as Vanderbilt houses, his personal residence at Newport, RI, and other public buildings besides the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery, such as the massive Masonic House of the Temple, 1915, Washington DC, and the triumphal-arch Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, 1936. He also designed the extension of the Henry Clay Frick mansion in NYC that created the Garden Court and music room. © The York Harbor Cottage Project, 2016 – V1.0 James Purdon York Harbor Reading Room, Church of the Disciples , Boston, MA,
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